Art project I did

[Vadriel]

Thanks, man. Yeah, I've been doodling since I could hold a crayon. When I was like, 5, there were purple dragons and monsters all over my Fischer-Price toybox, lol. I also think I grasped the idea of perspective pretty damn young on my own...I drew a ghostlike thingie whose tail spiraled around and diminished like it was fading off into the distance. It looked horrible, but I was 6 or so...

But yeah, no matter what else I've been doing in my life, I've always had a pencil and some paper within reach, and taken just about every opportunity to visit that cooler world where whatever I say goes and I can create every aspect of everything...god I used to drive my teachers nuts because absolutely every paper I turned in had stuff doodled in the margins.

So yeah...I've always been a sketcher/doodler, but never really considered myself a serious artist...I lacked so incredibly much, I was fair with sketching but not amazing, and pretty much shit with everything else, so I never really gave it much substantial weight.

I really have to say now that being an art major in college is really revitalizing my interest and broadening my ideas about art. My Intro to Drawing class opened me up to a variety of drawing media past my usual pencil set...I started getting interested in charcoal, pastels, conte, inkwash...stuff I had never before really messed with. God, I love conte...it's like charcoal but with more control. The dark blacks you can get just go so far beyond what you can do with a pencil, even a 6B.

But yeah, and now this Color class has kinda gotten my foot in the door for painting...overall I'm pretty happy with how my art education is going...

Sorry.../livejournal.

 

[Carbon]

well done.

i have a painting i made this year that i really like. maybe i'll post a pic. although i only have 2 stages, the draft drawing on paper and the final on board. mine is supposed to be in sort of post-impressionism Cezanne style. btw, great pieces of art take a long time to produce unless you're van gogh

 

[Vadriel]

That they do, lol. I never understood how people can take so long to do stuff, until I really got painting. The time just melts away...

 

[concrete_sox]

sorry to give negative feedback but i dont really like it and its kinda dull

 

[Vadriel]

That's ok, I don't pay attention to your opinion anyways, and expected nothing less from you. 14 year olds make great art critics.

 

[concrete_sox]

im actually 17

 

[Vadriel]

I'll believe that when me shit turns purple and smells like rainbow sherbet.

 

[Wing Zero]

never did like that Dali painting. gj none the less

 

[ChrisH36]

Wow, I never realized just how capable you are at these things Eric.

Congrats on a job well done. But I am still wondering, what exactly does that painting mean?

 

[Vadriel]

Child watching the birth of man. I've studied it quite a bit, on personal time...and noted a few things that may just be overanalysis or could be political statements about the culture of America. Not sure which.

 

[QuikSilver]

wtf is that?? you need jesus!

no jk...it looks very nice....

 

[Vadriel]

Lol, thanks. I need Jesus like I need a second penis. It could have perks, but overall it's just not necessary.

 

[Andrew]

Nice statement there. You need another arm to help you paint.

 

[Vadriel]

Shit, I could use another arm on general principles.

 

[T3h Sorrow]

very nice vad

 

[Vadriel]

Thanks!

 

[B~E]

Hah. A few years ago I toke a class with the exact same name, and they made us do the exact same exercise. My painting was "Saturn Devouring His Children", by Goya. I liked that painting because it didnt really asked for much precision, and I loved the psychotic black background. =)

I enjoyed this so much that I asked one of my friend if I could do his painting assigment (in exchange, he had to do another assigment for me), which was a painting by Dali. It was much harder, it asked for much more precision.

 

[Vadriel]

Sweet!

Yeah, I loved that Goya painting. Stuff is totally sadistic, but I love it.

 

[Lizardbreath]

Excellent painting IMHO.

 

[Vadriel]

Thanks, LB. =)